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Sulina or the place ..."where the old Danube loses its water and its name in the Sea..." Bart - Europolis.
It represents a unique and original space, where the sweet waters of the Danube embrace the salty waters of the sea in a perfect and continuous fusion. It is a mixture of reeds and waters in the middle of which rises a tongue of sand that people have developed through their skill in their daily life and activities.
Sulina is a suitable location for relaxation, many tourists come here during the warm season, both for the beach, fishing and for a few moments of silence and contemplation in pure nature.
SULINA SETTING
Sulina is located in the Danube Delta, near the discharge of the branch bearing the same name into the Black Sea. It is the easternmost locality in Romania, being located on the "freshest" European soil. It represents one of the eastern entrance gates to the country, being the last locality located along the long course of the Danube. It also has a unique quality, that of being the only port city in the country, both on the Danube and the Black Sea.
It stretches for about 3.9 kilometers and is arranged along the Danube river, the settlements being concentrated more on the right bank.
According to the last census in 2011, the population of Sulina was 3541 inhabitants.
SULINA HISTORY
The name of the settlement was mentioned for the first time in 950 under the form "Selina" in the work "De Administrando Imperio" written by Constantine VII Porphyrogenet. Later the name of the locality appears in different forms: Selinas and Solina (in Anna Comnena's writings). Sulina is located on the first original nautical map of the Black Sea drawn up by the Italian Pietro Visconti in the period 1320-1321, later appearing on various cartographic materials and under various names.
In the middle of the 18th century in 1745, a lighthouse was built to solve the orientation problems faced by navigators trying to enter the Sulina arm. At the end of the 18th century, there was the problem of regularizing the mouth of the Sulina arm due to the problems of the small waters in the area of discharge into the sea. In the events of history, Sulina becomes more and more important due to the fact that the great powers of that time (the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire), issued claims on Sulina and implicitly on the outlet of the arm into the sea, having place and some armed conflicts.
In 1856, the general secretariat of the European Commission of the Danube (CED) was established in Sulina, whose role was the development of navigation and commerce on the Danube. After all the historical events that happened around 1860, the city was quite well connected. Later, the port is built and the old lighthouse will be rebuilt in 1870 to ensure the safest possible navigation. Since 1878, Sulina becomes a Romanian city after a long period in which it belonged either to the Turks, the Russians or the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Another important event in Sulina's life was the cutting of the big "M" of the Danube and the inauguration of the navigation channel in 1894, after which there followed a period in which there was an increase in the traffic of goods and passengers. The city did not escape the bombings of the two world wars, both in 1916 and in 1941 and 1944 (when the city was destroyed in a proportion of over 50%). Its reconstruction began in 1955 under the command of Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej, so that during the 60s and 70s it developed from all points of view.
In October 1977, Sulina witnessed a remarkable event, the visit of the ship "Calypso" led by the famous explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau, which anchored here on its way to the Bosphorus.
After the year 2000, there was an intensification of tourism and implicitly a revival of the city, today being one of the most preferred locations in the Danube Delta, both by Romanian tourists and by many tourists from outside the borders.
